TY  - BOOK
AU  - Symons,Michael
TI  - Meals matter: a radical economics through gastronomy 
T2  - Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
SN  - 9780231551601
AV  - GT2850 .M435 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Prologue: Meals Before Money --; 1 It's Not "the Economy, Stupid," but More Than Five of Them --; 2 In Greed They Trust --; 3 Brillat- Savarin's Quest for Table- Pleasure --; 4 Epicurus and the Pleasure of the Stomach --; 5 Cavendish, Hobbes, Locke, and Liberal Political Economy --; 6 The City Sacks Versailles --; 7 Making the Market --; 8 The Dismal Science --; 9 Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberal Godfather --; 10 Rationalization and Corporate Purpose --; 11 The Creation of Homo Economicus --; 12 Free the Market! (It's Been Captured by Capitalism) --; 13 Value Families! (Economics Begins at Home) --; 14 Get Political! (Bring Back Banquets) --; Epilogue: "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry"; 2; b
N2  - "In Gastronomics, Michael Symons provides an innovative history of the intersection of food history, philosophy and economics. Modern economic thought, Symons argues, is driven by a money-centric focus that benefits the interests of the 'corporate individual'-entities without finite appetites, motivated by an endless quest for financial growth-to the detriment of actual, corporeal individuals. Symons understands this shift as a modern devaluation of community and loss of a way of life that values food sharing, enjoyment and satiety. Covering a wide variety of thinkers-Jean Brillat-Savarin and Epicurus, Enlightenment philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, economic theorists Jean-Baptiste Say and Stanley Jevons, and neoliberals-Symons reads and critiques both popular and lesser-understood intellectuals to shed light into the 'economics of appetite' and the opposing 'economics of greed.' He calls for individuals to reject the self-interest of money pleasure and, through renewed attention to communal values of family, meal-sharing, food activism, and the defense of liberalism, advocates a return to a community-based philosophy of 'table pleasure.'"--
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